She means popularity contest amongst journalists, not the general public.
DICE & BAFTA have a similar problem to the TGA in the sense that devs can't play every out there so mainstream games will find their way to the top. In fact, while devs are better positioned to assess the quality of a game, critics probably play more games in a year than devs so the critics probably have better coverage of games.
I don't think it'll ever change. It definitely isn't made for us, all the shitty ads during the show (pretty much 90% of the whole thing lol) are all aimed at a US market.
There's alot of braindead console warriors on social media.
There's >100 outlets who vote, right? How many do you think there should be? Are there well over 100 outlets worldwide that are worth including?
But they aren't LITERALLY voting for the most popular game. They're voting for the game they think deserves each award. The popularity factor comes in before the vote. If only a few outlets within the voting body have played a certain game, it's not gonna get nominated. It's an unfortunate byproduct of this format. The Oscars run into the same issue, many academy voters won't bother watching every nominated film in a category before voting for a winner.
The fact that none of the biggest and best games from the largest gaming market on earth even get nominated is directly tied to the limited pool of outlets that are put on the jury.
At least half the movies that end up getting nominated aren't moves you watched get marketed for 6+ months. With a winner that could've easily not make money. Made by a director you hadn't even heard before.
I haven't actually played Fata Morgana yet. I mentioned it because I hear so much love from it and the reviews were amazing, but it might be a bad example as you say.
And you guessing 2 movies getting nominated is comparable to all of the TGAs?
The BAFTA, GDC, and DICE awards have almost entirely white and western juries, and habitually nominate pretty much only white western games. The TGAs have a reasonably diverse, but still largely western jury, and they are a bit more willing to include Japanese games. Basically none of the awards being talked about here will touch indie games, non-commercial games, mobile games, anything outside of the west plus (sometimes) Japan. Most of gaming just doesn't exist as far as these groups are concerned.
Exactly. Hell, it's bad enough we're calling some mainstream games that sell millions "too niche" to win if they're in a different from normal genre. But at least try a little harder to give indies and other genres a chance instead of shrugging it off like a worthwhile casualty.
Yeah it's some childish shit. Just say the name if you're talking about it…or don't talk about it.
This is true. Lol.
